my bands name was "undertaken" when i joined the bnad. i always thought that was a dumb name. anyhow, last year at Creation East music festival, we are going through the list of bands to play. the last show is 11:00pm. and 1:00am is the sound curfew. well, as a joke, i say "ooo, lets go see sound curfew at 1:00!" well our sometimes dumb lead singer says, o sweet. are they good?

i laugh and tel him why he is so dumb, and he decides that shoudl be our new band name.

so when my band makes it to Creation and we play at 4:00, im guessing there are gonna be some confused people.

I'm currently in the secnd generation of a band. The first time round saw me on rythym g**t*r and the singer on bass. After one of our first practices together we're in the pub, along with my girl and the drummer's girl. Those two are chatting away and my lady is complaining about these odd bodies she has to deal with at work who are all called 'The Worshipful Copanny of...' (something). Overhearing this the drummer says "we should be The Worshipful Company of Rock!", and it just stuck.

So, after the shuffle, me now on bass and the singer just singing, me, the guitarist, and the drummer, are in the pub. We figure we should have a new name and so we start throwing some ideas around. Now, the singer (Louis) is a christian, and the guitarist comes out with "lets call ourselves Louis and the Heathans, that'll really wind him up". When we tell the singer, rather than throwing things, he laughs his arse off, so it stuck. There you go.

While brainstorming for a name, our cellist was trying to think of names of famous "nice" people, to sort of balance out the common practice of naming your hardcore/metal band after "mean" people (i.e. Ed Gein, Charles Bronson etc.) Our drummer suggested "Nelson Mandela" and that that was that. Not quite sure how I feel about it, it's a really good name. But problematic considering we're all white, and pretty well-off.

There were a bunch of other good names we came up with. The one I'm using with the violinist for our noise band is Kitten Surprise! Which is the name of our drummer's blog.

It refers to the demands that the music industry places on musicians: The easiest way to succeed is to become awesome at SUCKING.

Many people work their tails off to get properly educated in music, striving for perfection on their instrument.

However, a large percentage of the best-selling artists/biggest household names were and are pretty simplistic and many really don't get beyond power chords and cliche-flavored lyrics.

Five Star Loser is the answer to the fact that we already tried option number one. And the scary thing is, it's working: None of my jazz groups ever played outside of the state. Five Star Loser tours the world. Go figure.

Given the only group I have time for is the Church group I play with weekly, my creative release is in my one man bass and vocals only "band", sorta unblack/doom in nature, which I've called Last Darkness (I've been describing this thing for at least a month previous). I wanted a name which would somewhat describe what I want to accomplish with the project, and after I named the project that which I described, the name has stuck and the project feels like it has life now, though again it's not a fame seeker.